Providence Bridge Pedal Sunday - Expect Traffic Delays

Sunday is the annual Providence Bridge Pedal, which involves 10 of the bridges crossing the Willamette River and many streets connecting the bridges.

That means - while this is a great event promoting health and fitness - there will be traffic delays, detours, and snarls.

Here's the list of closures to vehicles:

Times are approximate:

• The Sellwood Bridge will be closed to westbound traffic from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m.
• The Ross Island Bridge will be closed to westbound traffic from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The Marquam Bridge (Interstate 5) will be closed to northbound (upper deck) traffic from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The Hawthorne Bridge will be closed to eastbound traffic from 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The Morrison Bridge will remain open in both directions. One eastbound lane will be closed from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and the eastbound offramp from the bridge to SE Water Ave. will be closed from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The Burnside Bridge will be closed to westbound traffic from 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The Steel Bridge will be closed to eastbound traffic from 6:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. MAX trains will operate on the Steel Bridge.
• The Broadway Bridge will remain open in both directions. One eastbound traffic lane is closed from 3:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and the NW Broadway ramp will be closed from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• Fremont Bridge (Interstate 405) will be closed to southbound (upper deck) traffic from 4 a.m. until noon, with access by bicyclists ending at 11:30 a.m.
• The St. Johns Bridge will be open in both directions during the day but closed from Saturday night at 9 p.m. until 4 a.m. on Sunday for maintenance.

Bridge Pedal will also require traffic changes on several state highways Sunday morning, including:

• I-5 and I-405: During the temporary Marquam Bridge closure (from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.) motorists approaching the Marquam Bridge from I-5 northbound will be routed to I-405 northbound, across the lower deck of the Fremont Bridge, back to I-5 northbound. The north and southbound ramps from I-5 to southbound I-405 will be closed from 4 a.m. to noon.
• All southbound lanes of I-405 will be closed between I-5 at the north end of the Fremont Bridge to the Marquam Bridge. Motorists traveling to I-405 southbound from I-5 southbound will continue on I-5 southbound across the lower deck of the Marquam Bridge to I-405 northbound. All on- and off-ramps to northbound I-405 will remain open through downtown Portland.
• All southbound lanes of I-5 and all northbound lanes of I-405 will remain open at all times.
• The ramp from NW Couch St. and NW 16th Ave. to I-405 southbound will be closed from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The ramp from SW Taylor St. and SW 13th Ave. to southbound I-405 will be closed from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.

• The ramp from SW Montgomery St. and SW 13th Ave. to southbound I-405 will be closed from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The ramp from SW 5th Ave. to I-405 southbound will be closed from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The ramp from I-405 southbound to U.S. 30 westbound will be closed from 4 a.m. to noon.
• The Greeley Ave. off ramp from I-5 north will be closed from 4 a.m. to noon.
• North Going Street to I-5 south will be closed from 4 a.m. to noon.
• The Broadway on ramp to northbound I-5 will be closed from 4 a.m. to noon.
• Access to I-84 will be open from I-5 southbound as well as from the Morrison Bridge.
• North Cook Street and North Kerby access to the top deck of the Fremont Bridge will be closed from 4 a.m. to noon.
• Starting at 4 a.m., motorists traveling eastbound on U.S. 26 (Sunset Highway) to I-405 southbound will take northbound I-405 across the Fremont Bridge to southbound I-5. This detour will remain until 11 a.m.
• The ramp from U.S. 26 eastbound (Ross Island Bridge) to U.S. 99E southbound will be closed from 4 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
• The ramp from SE Woodward St. to Ross Island Bridge westbound will be closed from 4 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Oregon Highway 43 (SW Macadam Ave.): Starting at 6 a.m., one northbound lane of SW Macadam Ave. will close from the Sellwood Bridge to the Ross Island Bridge, with some delays accessing areas east of SW Macadam Ave. All lanes on Macadam Ave. are expected to reopen by 9:30 a.m.
• U.S. 30: From 4 a.m. to 11 a.m. the ramp from U.S. 30 eastbound to I-405 southbound will be closed. The ramp being closed is NW Bridge Ave. between the bridge and U.S. 30 eastbound.
• The ramp from U.S. 30 Bypass westbound (St. Johns Bridge) to U.S. 30 eastbound will be closed from 7:30 a.m. to noon.

Portland streets will also be affected on Sunday morning, including:

• Naito Parkway will be closed in both directions between SW Jefferson and NW Davis. NW Naito will also be closed from NW Davis to NW 17th Ave., with local access only for residents and businesses to exit the area.
• N Willamette / N Greeley will be closed to southbound traffic from N Richmond to N Interstate.
• N Ivanhoe / N Leavitt / N Charleston / N Princeton will be closed to traffic from N Richmond to N Philadelphia.
• N Interstate will be closed to northbound traffic from N Oregon to N Greeley. Expect delays at Greeley.
• SE Milwaukie will be closed to southbound traffic from SE Schiller to SE Ellis.
• SE Clay will be closed to traffic west of SE Second Ave.

SE Water Ave. will be closed from SE Caruthers to SE Stark.

TriMet buses and MAX trains may experience delays downtown during the event.

The following bus lines will have minor detours from 5 a.m. until the event concludes: 4-Division/Fessenden, 6-Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, 8-Jackson Park/NE 15th, 12-Barbur/Sandy Blvd., 14-Hawthorne, 15-Belmont/NW 23rd, 17-Holgate/Broadway, 19-Woodstock/Glisan, 20-Burnside/Stark, 35-Macadam/Greeley, 44-Capitol Hwy/Mocks Crest, 54-Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, 56-Scholls Ferry Rd, 70-12th /NE 33rd Ave, 72-Killingsworth/82nd Ave. and 77-Broadway/Halsey. Signs will direct riders to nearby and temporary stops for buses affected by detours. Check before you go at trimet.org/alerts.

The Broadway, Burnside, Hawthorne, Morrison and Steel drawbridges will not open for river traffic between 6 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

The Oregon Department of Transportation maintains the Fremont, Marquam, Ross Island and St. Johns bridges. Multnomah County maintains the Broadway, Burnside, Hawthorne, Morrison and Sellwood bridges. Union Pacific Railroad maintains the Steel Bridge